The six powers (USA, Europe, Russia, China, India, and Brazil) develop their industrial bases and build up armies and fleets. They fight over control of neutral land and sea areas in order to become the most powerful nation worldwide. This is NOT a wargame; it is an investment game, but you get richer as the nation gets more powerful.

In this game it is not the players who take turns, but the six powers, one after another. The players are just internationally operating investors who act in the background. By giving money to the six powers, which all have their own treasuries, the players influence the politics. The biggest investor in each nation gains control of that nation's government and decides what the nation will do. As control of a government can change with each new investment, players may control several governments at the same time. As investors, players should not get too attached to their preferred nation, but rather focus on where their investments have the best rates of return. Essentially the game is about money, and not about military domination!

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The fee will be paid directly to the venue and the cost will be $60 per person for the evening. They do not serve food there, though you can bring food in or order food for delivery there.

This board game group was created to give people the chance to discover and enjoy board games they've never played before. Everyone has heard of games like Scrabble and Monopoly, but they probably haven't heard about Seasons, Kingsburg, Mageknight, Zombie Dice, Jamaica, Bora Bora,...

This board game group will introduce and play games like these on a regular basis! We don't expect you to know the rules beforehand, which is why we will always explain the rules before we start! You will also always know beforehand which games we will be playing.

Don't worry about winning or losing, playing new board games is most of the fun! So, join up and have fun exploring a whole new world of board games!

To make sure that the meetups are as much fun as possible, we have one rule:

The 3 strikes and you’re out rule: Ever since the beginning, we’ve had one reoccurring problem -> no shows or last minute cancellations without warning. It’s happening a bit too often that people sign up but then don’t show up and also don’t send a message to let us know they won’t be attending. Messages can be sent through the Meetup system or you can send it straight to me -> 53217081.

To make sure this happens less often, everyone will have 3 strikes or 3 chances. If you can’t make it and you forget to let us know, you’ll have 1 strike. If you collect 3, you will be removed from the group. Please remember that we’re not evil or anything, anyone can have an emergency or have something come up at work. That won’t affect your strikes or anything.

Our current organisers:

Joachim De Sutter

Aditya

Alison (AP)

Apoorva

Tristan

Roberto Ching

Ciaran D.

Evangelos

Feel free to message any of us about possible ideas for organising games or for group-related items!

You can take a look at the board games we own at the 'PAGES' tab on the top of the page.